On the morning of Sunday, January 2nd 1955 Adelaide Hill’s residents awoke to ominously rapidly rising temperatures and howling winds. To make matters worse a dust storm had blown in from the parched agricultural lands to the north. By mid-morning the temperature had climbed past one hundred degrees Fahrenheit and the winds were gusting to over 60 mph. It was about this time that the news spread that a large bushfire had erupted near Anstey Hill.
Read MoreThroughout Marble Hill’s long history, the need to source and store water in sufficient quantity had been the constant conundrum for all the previous custodians of the Estate - by Greg Cramond
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